“I am a lifelong conservative. For the past 20 years, I have been a leader in the Federalist Society. I was nominated by President Donald Trump three times to serve as a federal judge, though I never secured a hearing, because then-Senator Kamala Harris blocked my nomination. I did not vote for President Joe Biden in 2020, and I hope he is defeated in 2024 by a principled and ethical conservative Republican. But I also believe that Biden won the 2020 election fairly. Those who are enabling Trump’s ongoing effort to challenge the legitimacy of the election – John Eastman chief among them – should be rejected by all conservatives who love their country. He and others like him pose a clear and present danger to the health of our republic.”

“Now he is complaining about supposedly being deplatformed by the Federalist Society. He has specifically called me out, writing, ‘Some of the more vicious attacks on me have come from Federalist Society leaders like Jeremy Rosen, with no rebuttal opportunity afforded to me.’ An email I wrote in the aftermath of the events of January 6, criticizing Eastman, was reported in the press, but I was far from the only conservative to make such points. Thus, I am not sure why he is singling me out. It gives me no joy to fight him on this. I have known Eastman for roughly 20 years and considered him a friend. We were connected on Facebook [note use of the past tense ‘were’], we have many mutual friends, I contributed to his campaign years ago for California attorney general, and each year for about a decade, I invited him to participate in the annual Supreme Court roundup event sponsored by the Los Angeles Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society” writes Federalist Society lawyer Jeremy B. Rosen in an Atlantic piece chock full of qualifiers about how he’s a Conservative but he canceled John Eastman over Eastman’s infamous January 2021 coup memo.

The piece is titled “John Eastman is not a victim of cancel culture”.